“Yatra Nariyastu Pujyante Ramante Tatra Devta” the famous quote indicates where a woman is worshipped like a devi (Goddess), God resides there, while Gujarat is the place where women is been truly respected moreover a number of initiatives have been taken to empower women and fight against the most burning problem in India female foeticide as the words of Shri Narendra Modi go “The act of female foeticide should not be there, instead birth of a girl child should become a matter of pride for the family”

With Beti – Bachao and several other initiatives taken by Shri Narendra Modi, Gujarat has come a long way ahead and has topped among the safest places to work; besides larger numbers of BPOs are coming to Gujarat as it’s a women friendly sate where the security and safety of women is duly taken care. While there are several states where crimes like female foeticide and rapes are a matter of great concern moreover the ratios prove it all.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had started the ‘Beti Bachao’ campaign around a decade before. Year after year, Modi has tried to appeal to diverse sections of Gujarat to understand and value the importance of a girl-child in ways unique to such sections, besides recently Gujarat Health Ministry opened a website http://www.betivadhaao.com in a bid to create online facility to receive complains on Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 in a two-day work shop on PC and PNDT act related issues, organized by Health department of state government.

Malnutrition problems can be solved but for that, that little fairy should be first allowed to enter this world. It’s a depressing matter that there are certain corners in the nation where the heinous...